Eco-conscious Parent Gifts

Children's Books for the New Era

'He has all of his fingers and toes and, so far...no carbon footprint.'

I'm looking for a useful gift for a newborn. Nature's Baby Boutique. We have a large selection of essentials. Here are the 100% organic, fair trade, hand-dyed pashimina diaper covers. Wow! Nothing says "essential" like popped-on pashimina. A little dry-cleaning and it's good as new.

'Sorry, kids--everything else had toxins in it this year.'

'It's her ecological footprint.'

'I though you were on the pill!'

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. To save the planet she just had two."

Teach your children environmental awareness!

"I love this place—its food, its ambience, and its political goals."

"We'll always have Paris..."

'To help save the environment, I've replaced all of our lightbulbs with compact fluorescents. Now I'm running the old ones over to the landfill...'

Bee flying to another flower.

"Stop summoning me about rising sea levels. I do costumed supervillains staling jewels, men in beanies grabbing handbags - that sort of thing."

"All this spinning...shouldn't this be charging our phones or something?"

"Can you cut the grass but leave the daisies?"

"We balanced our budget this month!"

"The homes in this area are beautiful."

"I came to save you, but everything I can think to do seems like it wouldn't actually make that much of a difference."

"It's a lot of work, but we've decided to renovate this old factory."

Mother nature takes her course.

"Their wedding registry has 8 place settings of double wall, stainless steel water bottles."

Sorry, I only eat organic, fair-trade, shade-grown, biodynamic, raw dirt.

' Can I borrow change for the bus? With the cost of gas, I just can't justify buzzing around the city in that thing.'

Frankenstein's Reading Light

'Be careful...It may not be organic.'

"Well, you know what they say —'The water's always bluer on the other side of the trash fence.'"

"To keep warm in winter you're looking at a new central heating system costing £20,000."

"Technically, He's supposed to generate more energy than he uses."

From the Stone Age to the GarbAge.

"It seems even the local council are aware of your drink problem."

"Scientists don't know anything. . . but we need to leave this to those more qualified. . . like scientists!"

Who Was That Greta Girl Again?

"Hands up those in favour of deferring the firm's environmental policies for another few years."

Man rolling the world across a shaky bridge between organic food and genetic food.

No one drinks from fountains anymore. Thanks to bottled water, they've been replaced. By bottled water fountains.